> But there started to be significant web applications in the early 2000's. And then you had IE6 and stagnation on the web :) > It's all water under the bridg

> But there started to be significant web applications in the early 2000's. And then you had IE6 and stagnation on the web :) > It's all water under the bridge now, but what if there had been more "throwing away" (deprecation) of the bad stuff and less mitigation with the whims of browser implementors? I feel like we would be in a better position today. You could view Canvas, WebGL, WebGPU and WebASM as going in that direction. > What if the W3C had taken a more standards-based approach with hard PASS/FAIL requirements W3C has no power over browsers, and is made up of browser implementors (among other people).